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The Naked Stranger
By the Naked Stranger
Episode 9: A winter ode to l’eau chaude
Hot water is good. I love it. But not like that comfortable, homey love affair I have with my slippers. And not like that sneaky, guilty love I feel for ho...

Episode 8: Bringing the world back home
The Japanese are great imitators. They love to take little slices of the rest of the world and put them here in Japan. Go to Nagasaki to experience Holland at the Huis Ten Bosch Dutch Village. Marvel at the t...

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Episode 7: The most beautiful girls in Japan
“Well, those Tokyo girls are hip, I really love those clothes they wear. And Okinawa girls with the way they talk they knock me out when I’m down there. But I wish&hellip...

Can a bathhouse be closed if the front door is left open? The Naked Stranger likes to ponder philosophical questions of life, death and onsen like this. Just the other day he went to a bathhouse and was surprisingly told by a member of the front desk ...

“Save water, share a bath.”
Maguse Onsen: The Travelers Friend
If you are a stranger in this strange land, the Naked Stranger is just like you. He is not from around here. He comes from a country where naked people get arrested and b...